Remember the fall sports season? It may seem like ages ago, but those were the days when fans used to flock to NIU football games; that was the time when you could sell your free Huskies tickets for cash because fans wanted so badly to get into Huskie...

Every year, there’s a time where sports hits its low point and it seems like there’s nothing around to keep an eye on. It may come at different times for different locations across the country. Two weeks before the most anonymous Super Bowl in NFL...

The recent success of the NIU football team has begun to pay dividends for some NIU players. Nine NIU seniors have signed with agents in hopes of continuing their football careers. Agents act as mediators for players and work with NFL teams to get tryouts...

Trying to keep up with NIU sports once the Northern Star shut down for Winter Break was about as simple as naming five members of the basketball team. I know you probably can’t, but don’t feel bad because the two problems go hand in hand. There isn’t...

NIU football’s Vinson Reynolds knows it would be easy to forget about school now that the season is over and he’s working out with an agent to play football professionally. But getting a degree is the No. 1 priority for the fifth-year senior defensive...

On paper, the NIU gymnastics team is 0-1, but to coach Mark Sontag, his young team, led by Kristina Campos, came within .525 points of ousting Illinois on Sunday. For her efforts, Campos was MAC Gymnast of the Week. A senior, Campos’ award was the fourth...

Disappointment officially set in. Three months ago, the football team was undefeated and ranked in the top 10 of the BCS. Nearly every major media outlet in the United States featured the Huskies. NIU was the media pick to win the MAC Championship and...

The awards keep piling up for NIU’s all-time leading rusher Michael Turner. The 5-foot-10, 232-pound senior was named to the 2003 Associated Press All-American team. This is the sixth All-American team he has made this season. In two years, Turner made...

Despite a Bowling Green loss Thursday night, the NIU football team probably lost all chances for a post-season bowl game, NIU quarterback Josh Haldi said. When Miami-Ohio beat the host Falcons in the MAC Championship Game on Thursday (see below), NIU...

The chances for the NIU football team to get into a bowl game are a little bit bleaker after Boise State accepted an invitation Tuesday to play in the Fort Worth Bowl against Texas Christian University. On ESPN.com’s Bowl Projections for Dec. 1, three...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! Many of you, like myself, already have a list of items you hope to receive this holiday season. Wish lists do not elude NIU athletics as many players, coaches and teams have been writing their letters to Santa with presents...

So they call this the land of equal opportunity. Whatever. There are 6-6 teams going to bowl games, while NIU’s 10-2 football team is left hanging by a thread. Before the bowl breakdown begins, let me get one last shot in at the BCS: You suck, so hit...